Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:08:10 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sean mccandless Subject: ring billed?? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hello , I was in North East Plaza, at the acme today. In Cecil Co. . There was a flock of ring billed gulls. This one gull stood out to me becouse it didnt have a ring around the bill. Well, It seem to be the same size as the other ring billed gulls the bill seemed to be the same shape and size also. Just no ring. The head did seem a bit smaller but that was it . Even the streaking on the back of the head was the same. Can someone help me??? Does this happen to ring billed gulls, sometimes? I have never seen this befofe in my 20 or so years of birding. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================